Every year, just as the Shia ceremonies of Muharram reach their peak on the tenth day of Ashura, the suicide attacks by Sunni extremists begin. But the Kurdish Hizbullah which was founded in the 1980s in Turkey and is still inspired by the Iranian revolution celebrated it in Kurdish-dominated Diyarbakir. Normally militant Sunni Islamist movements do not love Shia practices, and even try to disrupt or kill Shia mourners, but it depends where the inspiration (or in the case of Hamas, money and military training) comes from. Its something which goes unnoticed mostly in the media. Strangely, other Sunni movements that were supported by Iran, or inspired by Iran, did not adopt any Shia rituals or practices.
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